Oits Norcross & Co.
Otis Norcross, Jr. assumed proprietorship of Norcross, Mellen & Company (est. 1810), upon the death of his father Otis Norcross, Sr. and the subsequent retirement of fellow partner Eliphalet Jones (b. 31 Aug. 1797, Boston), who entered the company as an apprentice in 1811 (r. 1847). Otis Norcross, Jr., having started with the firm as an apprentice at the age of fourteen, along with his two brothers Addison and D. Webster, and Otis Norcross Jones (b. 6 Mar. 1828, Boston, d. 20 May 1892); son of Eliphalet; and not a relative, at least known, to senior member Jerome Jones, renamed and shared in partnership Otis Norcross & Co; importers, dealers, wholesalers and retailers of fine European, Japanese and Chinese china, glassware, crockery, earthenware and pottery in Boston.
The company also established a glass factory in Sandwich, Massachusetts.
This partnership also later included Otis Norcross Howland; nephew of Otis Norcross, Jr.; son of is brother-in-law, Ichabod Howland, a business partner at the firm, who was married to his wife's sister, Mary (Maria) Wellington ; descendant of Mayflower (1621) passenger; John Howland. The company was sold upon Otis Norcross, Jr.' retirement in 1867 when he assumed his mayoral duties, upon which time his partner Jerome Jones (apprentice, Jun. 1853; pr. 1861) and Mr. Otis Norcross Howland took over the company as Howland & Jones, Co. Jerome Jones (b. 1837) was the son of Theodore Jones, Sr. and Marcia of Brookline, MA.
The Company was sold for the final time in 1871 upon the death of Mr. Howland, and renamed; Jones, McDuffee & Stratton, Co. (Inc. 1896). In 1885 Jones' son Theodore Jones, Jr. (b. 17 Mar. 1866) began an apprenticeship at the firm rising through the ranks to the partner position of Treasurer.
Since its inception, the company under numerous iterations amassed productive wealth and notoriety for all its partners as esteemed members of society, of whom applied legacies to many endowments within the City of Boston. Proceeding the death of Eliphalet Jones, he became a member of the New England Genealogical and Historical Society, 11 Nov. 1861.
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